The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-04-15


Victoria maintained great GOODNESS,
aud guaranteed the safety OF all on
board if they would but obey his
orders.
The government has published a
blue book giving list of all the Of
faDses punit liable under the terms Of
the Whiteboy act.
The statement from Rome that the
Congregation of the Holy Office had
decided in favor of the recognition Of
the Knights OF Labor in accordance
with Cardinal Gibbons report, was
contain ed in a special telegram to the
London Daily telegram.
Mr.. Balfour, Chief Secretary for Ire
land, intimated in the House OF Com
mons this afternoon that no talsry
would be attached to the Office OF
Under Secretary for Ireland made for
Col. King Harmsn. The governmen
wss aware, Mr.. Bslfour said, when
they appointed the incumbent that
the appointment would be attacked.
They had taken the highest legal i'd
vice, and had been informed that
their action was legal. In addition TO
this, Mr.. Bslfour said that the new
Office did not involve in its acceptance
by a member of the House of Com
mons the necessity of his resigning
his seat and recontesting 1t for re-elec-
ton, because the Office was not a
place of profit or emolument under
the crown.
Mr.. Glsdsto 1e said the precedents
required Col. King Hsrmsn to vacate
his seat and seek reelection. Mr..
Gladstone said that when he repre-
eented Oxford University he accepted
for short period place In the gov
eminent without salary, and under le-
gal adv ce vacated his seat and stood
fJr re election. a.
John Redmond made a personal
explanation with reference to his
spsech at the Chicsgo convention. He
said thai MIR, chamberlain in his
speech at Ayr had represented him as
sayicg that the Irish party were not
working for the removal OF grievances,
whereas, what he did say was that
they were not working solely for the
purpose of removing the material
grievances of tenants, but to obtain
social reforms also, and further, when
he said that the government OF Ire
lane by Eogland was impossible his
allusion was 10 the centralized bureau
cratic government of Dublin Castle.
He believed it possible that settle
ment could be effscted honorable
alike to England and to Ireland, such
as was offer. by Mr.. Gladstone's bill.
TNri.,a ~ ttHaarpD1
SIR Lyon Playfair resumed the de-
bate on the coercion bill. While adj
mitting the difficulty in certain cases
of procuring convictions in Ireland,
he said that these facts were not so
serious as 'ha government alleged. In
England III, percentage OF convictions
was n, in Ireland 73. The paucity of |
dt tections in Ireland was due to two |
distinct causes: First, the Irish police
were an armed military body; they |
did not mix with the people, and were |
unfit for detective work. Second, |
Parliament had by laws heretofore |
they regar6e the law as their natural
enemy. This bill would increase
that enmity. So arbitrary were the
bills provisions that it would be inn.
possible for ter a ITS to combine to try |
to get rents reduced without becoming |
liable to arrest and Imprisonment. In |
the past 100 years 1876 coerciol acts
had met with unvarying failure. The |
government ought to know that for
obedience to the la v there must be in
the minds of the governed belief
that the laws are based on right and
justics. The Irish people were con-
vlnced that there was neither right
nor justice in ths agrarisn laws. Let
the government give Ireland institu-
tons in accordance with Irish senti-
ments, under which the law would be
the law of their own country, and
order and prosperity would succeed
the prevailing disorder and distress.
LABoUcHERE C,UNoILs VIOLENCE.
Mr.. Henry Labouchere, editor of
Truth, says: ~ do not mince matters,
l am of the school of qui veut la fin
veut les moiens. II were Russian,
and if it were clear to me that the
only means of fighting despotism ia
Russia were those pursued by the
nihilists, nihilist / should be. II The
here suppresses all legiti-
mate expires ion of opinion in Ireland
in order to force on that country a
Tory policy and hand over its people
to the tender mercies of rack renting
landlords, on the government he the
At all costs it must be
demons ratively proved that Ireland
Cal't be ruled by coercion, and that
the only mode of maintaining law and
order there is to make the
conseq1 fences reflex of
Irish opinion, II it be neces.
sary, secret societies mus! replace the
constitutional associations which the
government is trying to suppress. War
must be met by war. II the govern
ment uses arms Of deepotism to crush
out liberty ihe people must reply by
the use OF those means which op.
pressed nationalities ever had at their
and have ever used in their
struggles fer their rights. There must
be no outrsges which are calculated to
shock humanity. Women, children
and the beasts of the field must be as
ssfe in Ireland as they a,ein England.
War must, however, be carried on
against rack renting landlords, against
evictors, against those mean a1d con-
wretches who take evicted
farms and against the agents OF des-
potism. They must be declared to be
lepers, and as lepers they must be
treated. The blood aud iron policy of
has never yet been success